Homecoming!!!

Ok...It was great to see everyone. As usual, the time was WAY too short visiting with several people, and I felt the abscence of several...including Kim, Avolio, jdwyatt and Brown. I did break the news to some that Brown is dancing for some extra cash in NYC these days and the news was taken well by everyone...Of course, more news that some are expecting additions to their families from Ohio to New Jersey.

in many ways, things have changed..in some, nothing has changed.

i think my daughters hair is getting a tad long....

Brandy and Tariq at tailgating....

Andrea at tailgate

Clemons, Crowell and Lisa at tailgate...

here are Lisa and TJ, right before heading off to Aluminum Band

just saw

...the new Jay-Z video on Monday night football, of all places. And wasnt he supposed to be retiring? it was kinda interesting, with Dale Earnhardt jr and Danica Patrick in the video.

speakin of football, I think i am going to wear my new Czech Republic soccer jersey to work tomorrow... pretty slick.

...wanted to go to bed early tonight, but Battlestar Galactica replays at 11 and i messed up my time in tryin to vcr it the other night. so...GOTTA watch it now.

you gotta wonder...

...just thinkin about the whole thing with the NBA player shooting at someone outside a "nightclub"... this is what I think of when i hear about this sorta thing...if you feel that the place you are going to requires that you have to take a pistol with you, then perhaps, just maybe, you might wanna reconsider if it is really worth going. When i think about going out for some entertainment at a gentlemans club, the last thing I want to be worried about is where my gun might be and if I have enough ammo to hold up in a shootout. And since i dont own a gun (well, I have a 30-30 and a couple of other shotguns at my mothers house), I am already behind in the argument. Lets see, go to gentlemans club, drink a beer or 2, smoke a cigar and then shoot my way back to my car. I dont think so.

gotta get back into the groove

...my new work schedule has kinda changed when I do posts to this blog.

last night it was interesting that Ryles (when time for bed) stomach was hurting so bad (suddenly) that she was rolling around in uncontrolled fits of pain. Then suddenly, it was her mouth that was hurting. Then jessica said that she could sleep with us. suddenly the pain seemed to go away...then she got up and ran to her room, and shows back up with her pillow.... meanwhile I-Man, long ago banished (again) for not eating dinner, was snoring loudly in his bed. I think I-Man has not slept in his bed a total of maybe 1 time (when he had a true fever) , while Ryles goes thru 2 or 3 day spells of wanting to come into our bed at 5am.

rare anger

I rarely get too upset about stuff, but this deal with all these guys ( notice that they are always hard up white guys?) going into schools and shooting kids, then shooting themselves annoys me. I think what really gets me is that they shoot themselves, and dont have the balls to face up to what they did. that is just plain cowardly....